21.   Authorities in Kiev initially claimed there was just a small leak in the pipeline and accused workers of overreacting by shutting down the reactor.

22.   Hoping to win compensation from western oil firms, villagers in the past have created small leaks along the pipelines using hacksaws and drills.

23.   Nervous operators at the Chernobyl nuclear power station hastily shut down a reactor after detecting a small leak in an emergency cooling system, officials said Monday.

24.   Small leaks at the tower had been reported since the FAA replaced rooftop air conditioning units in August.

25.   Subsequent investigations turned up a small leak in a piece of processing equipment.

26.   The balloon set out early Wednesday and immediately hit problems caused by the poor winds and a small capsule leak.

27.   The crew was scheduled to mend a small leak in the rear hatch of the orange capsule housing the pilots.

28.   Workers had monitored a small leak in the cooling system since September.

29.   And damage to homes and businesses near small leaks in the sandbag wall, as well as damage to roads and powerlines had not yet been estimated.

30.   Shortly after the liftoff of Atlantis on Friday, a small leak of hydraulic fluid from one of the systems used to steer the shuttle was detected.